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Mvbackupfiles - a script to "delete" back autosaved backup files

24^th of November 2005

Last month I complained about how brutal the rm program in Linux was and how I cocked things up when I wanted to remove the autosaved backup files that jed creates. Here's the solution...

I created a script in ~/bin/Mvbackupfiles that looks like this:

 #!/bin/sh
 mv -v *~ /tmp

Now, whenever I want to clear a directory of all files like dummy.py~ or README.txt~, I just run Mvbackupfiles and I become a much happier and tidier person.

Here's what it can look like:

 peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ ls
 index.html  index.html~
 peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ Mvbackupfiles 
 `index.html~' -> `/tmp/index.html~'
 peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ ls
 index.html

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